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Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816

PART II
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You shall take especial care that God be not blasphemed in your ship, but that after admonition given, if the offenders do not reform themselves, you shall cause them of the meaner sort to be ducked at yard-arm; and the better sort to be fined out of their adventure.

By which course if no amendment be found, you shall acquaint me withal, delivering me the names of the offenders.

For if it be threatened in the Scriptures that the curse shall not depart from the house of the swearer, much less shall it depart from the ship of the swearer.
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Thirdly, no man shall refuse to obey his officer in all that he is commanded for the benefit of the journey.

No man being in health shall refuse to watch his turn as he shall be directed, the sailors by the master and boatswain, the landsmen by their captain, lieutenant, or other officers.
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